[H-GEN] partitioning again

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

On Thu, 13 May 1999, James McPherson wrote:

> sorry - I wasn't being sufficiently careful in what I was referring to. I was
> actually referring to your non-blake machines. As for enterprise/commercial

Ah ok.  All the other boxen either have too little HD space to warrant it
or aren't used enough to warrant the time :) but I agree a proper
partitoning scheme has many advantages such as you mention.

> environments, well, how you set them up depends on what your needs are. A
> small site might get away with only two disks - but not if they're running a
> dbms such as oracle, ingres, db2 or sybase because the requirements for
> logfiles and continual disk access would mean that general access would be
> pretty poor.
> 
> I'd also like to see the savecore facility but newgroup archives lead me to
> believe that that is unlikely even though it would be _very_ useful.

savecore?  As in saving an image of the running system on disk for later
restorartion?  I thought most laptops,etc had it in h/w.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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